Rebecca Horn
born 1944
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In Tate Liverpool
Constellations: Lynda Benglis
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Rebecca Horn (born 24 March 1944, Michelstadt, Hesse) is a German visual artist, who is best known for her installation art, film directing, and her body modifications such as Einhorn (Unicorn), a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece. She directed the films Der Eintänzer (1978), La ferdinanda: Sonate für eine Medici-Villa (1982) and Buster's Bedroom (1990). Horn presently lives and works in Paris and Berlin.
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Rebecca Horn Finger Gloves
1972
Rebecca Horn Concert for Anarchy
1990
Rebecca Horn Pencil Mask
1972
Rebecca Horn Unicorn
1970–2
Rebecca Horn Arm Extensions
1968
Rebecca Horn Mechanical Body Fan
1973–4
Rebecca Horn Berlin Exercises: Dreaming under Water
1974–5
Rebecca Horn White Body Fan
1972
Film and audio
Look Closer
Body Extensions and Isolation
Joey from Tate Collective London shares her perspective on Rebecca Horn's work In The Triangle
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Jeanette Winterson - Conversations with Magic Stones
Prize-winning author, Jeanette Winterson, talked about work by four twentieth-century sculptors and installation artists who challenge the way we see ...
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Rebecca Horn born 1944Moveable Shoulder Extensions 1971
As part of Performance at Tate: Into the Space of Art, Acatia Finbow explores Rebecca Horn's Moveable Shoulder Extensions ...
Tate Etc
Extending bodies
How artists have explored and utilised prosthetic technologies both to satirise humanity and help in the quest to expand the ...
Tate Papers
Becoming Machine: Surrealist Automatism and Some Contemporary Instances
Involuntary Drawing
Tate Papers
Nothing but the Real Thing: Considerations on Copies, Remakes and Replicas in Modern Art
Lydia Beerkens. Nothing but the Real Thing: Considerations on Copies, Remakes and Replicas in Modern Art; Tate Papers, no.8
Tate Papers
Contemporary Art and the Role of Interpretation
Recent research indicates that the taught curriculum in art and design secondary school education pays scant attention to meaning-making in ...
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